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 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Creator: David Gates
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
List Price: $8.95
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 43230
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2000 Modern Library Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 896
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0679783415
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780679783411
ASIN: 0679783415
Publication Date: November 28, 2000
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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 Difficult but worth while January 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well this was my first Charles Dickens book. I found it difficult at times to read, a lot of flowery descriptions and some English expressions I wasn't familiar with. BUT, I did enjoy reading it and found the characters interesting. I found some of the events that happened were to coincidental, but then again that's how the author brings some zest to the story. This book is long. I did appreciate Modern Library Classics little extra touches like discussion points, even the front of the books art work is nice.
 As Good As it Gets July 17, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Woolf praised this book as the most complete of all of Dickens' work, so who am I to argue with such a glowing endorsement. I started reading this after asking the head of the Columbia English Department to give me a list of books I should read before I die (a list that is as subjective as anything out there, but one that does have a series of books such as the great work of Dickens that few can argue do not belong on such a list) and he included this work. I think what amazes me about David Copperfield is the density of themes, a density matched only by the prose and lilting melodies one can hear with every passing word. The book is part love story, part tragedy, part comedy, part social satire...in other words it has a little bit of everything, something modern fiction has been lacking recently. I recommend the book to just about everyone.
Master Copperfield by THE Master Dickens May 15, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
David Copperfield truly IS a wonderful novel. As has been stated, everything fits together too nicely in the end but let's face it, sometimes ya' just need that. The ending certainly is not far fetched.
This is NOT a novel to be jammed down the throat of young people or teenagers who don't yet have a love for classic prose. All that ever accomplishes is giving the student a disdain for any liturature written before the 20th century. At the age of 50, I even needed to knock the chip off my shoulder and open my mind (and heart) to Master Copperfield. I so enjoyed it I'm now going to read all Dickens' other novels.....if I don't die first.
my favorite book March 31, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is by far my favorite book.
I am a huge Dickens fan. I've read four of his books, Hard Times, David Copperfield, a tale of two cities, and Oliver Twist and out of all these great books {all of them some of my top 10 at least} David Copperfield was the best. I had just finished reading A Tale Of Two Cities and thought that nothing could beat this book then I read David Copperfield and immedietly loved it.
In the book David goes through all kinds of periods. He goes from being poor,to happy,to sad,to being in love,to having friends, to having no friends at all. The books makes you cry at the begining because it is sad and it makes you cry at you feel very happy for him.
The also has some of the worlds best characters like Uriah Heep,Dora,David,the peggotyes, mr.Micawber,and many more.
If you are a literature fan this is a must read. It is a must read for anybody actually.
There is a reason why David is Dickens' "favorite child"! March 18, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"David Copperfield" is perhaps Charles Dickens' finest novel (followed closely by "Dombey and Son"). I have just finished it for the second time and had forgotten how endearing David's character is. He is perhaps the only Dickens hero that doesn't remain static throughout the novel. He is so naive and goodhearted...but not above falling into temptation or coming up against the Uriah Heeps of the world. Furthermore, because David is the narrator of his own story, one can see how his "present" ideas change in retrospect. This is a fun read, but also subtley complex.
Many complain that this novel is a little too convenient at the end...everything falls into place too neatly, but it is my opinion that Dickens was not a realist (as some like to argue) but a romantic. Everything falls conveniently together at the end so that the novel can focus on David and his coming of age.
The opening of the novel has David wondering if he will indeed become the hero of his own life. I think after you read this you will say "yes, he has," and perhaps you may even gain a new hero for yourself. You will love him for his blunders and his loyalties, even if they are misguided (and to balance out his character, there is perhaps the best literary villain of all time: Uriah Heep).
Charles Dickens once wrote that he considered David Copperfield to be his "favourite child," and trust me, once you read this novel, it will be easy to see why. Enjoy!
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